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Userboxes This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia. This user is a participant in WikiProject Rock music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Albums. 45Y This Wikipedian was born on 27 June 1979 and is 45 years, 5 months, and 25 days old. This user has been on Wikipedia for 10 years, 10 months and 21 days. This user has made over 115,700! edits to Wikipedia. This user is male. This user is a mammal. This user drinks coffee. This user loves pizza. This user's favourite colour is blue. This user lives in or hails from Youngstown. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. This user still owns and collects vinyl records. This user is from the planet Earth.

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for all of your outstanding and appreciated work on music articles in Wikipedia. You're the best! Pkeets (talk) 13:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Nice job! Padredjet (talk) 09:55, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The No Spam Barnstar
	well done no spam on you Padredjet (talk) 10:52, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

To whomever it may concern, I'm Joseph Charles "Joe" Vitale, born on June 27, 1979 in the great city of Youngstown, Ohio in the United States, I grew up there until I was around 19, before moving to the not-so-great Wichita, Kansas for a part-time job with my father, Vannozzo Vitale (what a name!), and in late 2009 I went on a short trip to Stockport, Cheshire, England, with a former friend of mine (who doesn't want to be named due to his profession). Not before long, I decided to stay there permanently (what a mistake!). I support the English football/soccer club Stockport Town, after formerly supporting Rochdale.

I joined Wikipedia (my only love!) on the 31st of January in 2014, after anonymously and frequently editing for many months. The main reason for becoming a Wikipedian had remained a mystery for many years, but in subsequent years I've realised that I joined to make albums, singles, footballers, and musicians mean more to me in digital words, mostly for myself, but if you find that helpful then I must be doing something (if anything) right! And the only advice that I can give to anyone is L.A.B.A.T.Y.D (an acronym for "Life's a Bitch and Then You Die", harsh but true or not, I guess that it depends on the actor.

My Motto is:

• L.A.B.A.T.Y.D! You've Just Gotta Get Used to It and You'll Live a Happy Life (Or try to!)

You may find that in the "Additional information" sections I have an autograph collection. My first ever autograph was Roger Daltrey's which I received via backstage security whom most kindly forwarded it to him. He dedicated it to myself, and told me to "Be Lucky" (as he does with most fans), but little did I know that he was going to record a song with this title as a single in 2014, with Pete Townshend as the Who (I also created a Wikipedia article for the song). Some of my other autographs were via fanmail (However, most of those I wrote to never got back to me. e.g. Paul McCartney, Don Henley, Glenn Frey (now R.I.P.), Sting, and Pete Townshend). The autographs that I acquired via fanmail were Joe Walsh's, and Phil Collins'. I got Alexander O'Neal's autographs via a friend, he signed a photograph, and copies of his studio albums, Alexander O'Neal (1985), Hearsay (1987), All True Man (1991), and Love Makes No Sense (1993), and I later met him randomly one day outside of a hotel in Manchester — he obviously didn't know who I was, and wasn't very nice.

I have personally met the current and former Rochdale players Stephen Dawson; Peter Vincenti; Ian Henderson; Rhys Bennett; Joe Bunney; Michael Rose, and Olly Lancashire, after seeing them play Scunthorpe United in March 2015. I met Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason backstage in 2018, and Dave Wakeling of the Beat after a concert in 2022. I also randomly met Morrissey of the Smiths at the Waitrose in Wilmslow, who was very strange to me in 2022...

2023 was a little more eventful (and tiring). I met Kate Bollinger, Suzanne Vega (who put me on the guest list to one of her concerts for the second time), Laura Evans (very rude for a nobody), Jez Kerr of A Certain Ratio (outside the venue before the first show that I saw by them), Valor Kand and Maitri of Christian Death, Nik Kershaw, Wreckless Eric, and Lucia Fairfull of Lucia & the Best Boys. I also tried to meet John Lydon after his Public Image Ltd concert in Manchester but he practically ignored me, and was rude to all but one person. I stopped listening to him significantly after that...

In 2024, I randomly met Will Mellor at the Queens pub in Bredbury, Stockport (where he was born, and raised), and also Tracy Tracy of the Primitives after a concert in Manchester.

My top ten favourite singles are No Money Down by Lou Reed, Sweetest Girl by Madness, Perfect Way by Scritti Politti, I Pronounce You by the Madness, All You Pretty Girls by XTC, This Is England by the Clash, Taking the Town by Icehouse, Paranoimia by Art of Noise, Hey, Matthew by Karel Fialka, and Locomotion by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

My top ten favourite studio albums are DaDa (1983) by Alice Cooper, Shout (1984) by Devo, New Sensations by Lou Reed, Honi Soit (1981) by John Cale, Junk Culture (1984) by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Avalon (1982) by Roxy Music, This Is Big Audio Dynamite (1985) by Big Audio Dynamite, In Outer Space (1983) by Sparks, Whistle Rymes (1972) by John Entwistle, and Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti.